Cameroon Iron Ore Project
The Cameroon Iron Ore Project is situated in the Lobe mine, 200 kilometers (124 miles) southeast of the economic capital Douala, Cameroon, and 40 km from the port town of Kribi, which holds 632.8 million tonnes of iron ore.
According to the project’s Feasibility Study, the first year is expected to produce 10 million tonnes of ore with a plan to reduce carbon emissions with high-grade iron rather than lower-grade ones. The production process and flows will be optimized for higher iron ore recovery and production volume. To expand production, intensive work was done on technological research, preparation of plans for technical upgrades and expansion, and licensing, to reach new production targets as soon as possible.
Kenya Kwale District Project
Kenya Kwale Project is situated 10 kilometers inland from the Kenyan coast and 50 kilometers south of Mombasa, the principal port facility for East Africa.
The Kwale Project features a high-grade ore body with a high-value mineral assemblage, rich in rutile, ilmenite, and zircon. The project is designed to dig an average of 330,000 tonnes of ilmenite yearly. Ilmenite is the primary ore of titanium, an important metal in the production of aircraft parts, artificial joints for humans, and sporting equipment. The Kwale Operation currently accounts for approximately 65% of Kenya’s mining industry by the mineral output value.
The hydraulic mining method has proven cost-effective and well suited to the Kwale deposit and involves blasting the mining face directly with high-pressure jets of water to create an ore slurry. The ore slurry is then pumped to the wet concentrator plant where slimes are removed before a number of gravity separation steps reject most of the non-valuable, lighter gangue minerals to produce a heavy mineral concentrate. The heavy mineral concentrate is then processed in the mineral separation plant which cleans and separates the rutile, ilmenite, and zircon minerals into finished products for sale.
Filo del Sol copper and gold project
The Filo del Sol copper and gold project is located approximately 10km from the Chilean border and 140km from Copiapo, Chile. The deposit remains open to the south and is hosted under a thick cover of post-mineral volcanic rocks.
A feasibility study that was completed in October 2022 anticipated the production of 5.4 billion pounds of copper and 4.6 million ounces of gold during its anticipated mine life of 19 years with the potential start of production expected in 2026.
Conventional open-pit mining method, involving drilling and blasting followed by loading and hauling by autonomous trucks, will be employed. Ore from the pit will undergo crushing and the crushed product will 3 identical semi-autogenous grinding mills after which it will undergo flotation, regrinding, and three stages of cleaner flotation to produce a final concentrate. The concentrate will then be thickened with flocculant in a high-rate thickener and fed to the agitated copper filtration stock tank after which it will be transported.